If you needed yet one more sign that the late-night wars as we once knew them are over, look no further than PaleyFest, where CBS Late Late Show host James Corden mounted a candid, unprovoked defense of NBC’s marquee host (and theoretically, one of his chief rivals), Jimmy Fallon.

The Tonight Show host found himself on critics’ bad side last year when he lobbed too many softballs Donald Trump’s way during an interview, capping the appearance off by fluffing the then-Republican nominee’s hair. The furor was instant and, to some degree, continues to follow Fallon—despite the fact that Fallon’s critiques of Trump have only grown sharper in recent months. Corden recalled the controversy when asked at PaleyFest whether he would ever host the president on his own show—but instead of criticizing Fallon, Corden instead called out his comrade’s critics.

“The thing is, there was the thing that happened with Jimmy Fallon, where he got quite a lot of criticism, and I thought that that was really unfair,” Corden said, bringing up Fallon’s name unprompted. “I don’t think anyone asks him the right questions—I think anyone who had [Trump] on their show, I don’t think anybody took him to task or asked him the questions that needed to be done.”

Corden makes a very good point: in the same week that Fallon interviewed Trump, the future president also received frustratingly gentle treatment from Dr. Oz and Matt Lauer—and the latter of those two, at least, is a longtime journalist. Why should Fallon, a traditionally gentle host whose late-night program has a tradition of being nonpartisan, be expected to succeed in a task that has vexed even those trained and practiced to execute it?

Corden is not Fallon’s direct time-slot competitor at CBS; that would be Stephen Colbert, whose iteration of Late Show has pulled ahead of Fallon’s in terms of total viewership for seven weeks now. (Notably, Colbert, who once had to deal with critics who wondered if Corden would replace him as Late Show host, has also defended Fallon in the wake of the Trump interview.) Corden and Fallon both represent an increasingly rare continuation of the traditional late-night format: they host modified variety shows that largely shy away from partisan bents. As late night increasingly turns to the Jon Stewart school of scorching critique, Fallon and Corden have, in a way, found themselves in similar challenging positions, facing critics who seem to want all late-night shows to do the same thing.

“We’re definitely not, not a political show,” Corden said at PaleyFest, adding that Late Late Show is unafraid to take decisive swings when they feel it’s warranted. “We talk about Donald Trump almost every night on our show,” Corden added, “and I think anyone watching our show would know where we stand, but we all come from a place where we don’t feel like we do these shows every day for them to be the same every day.”

Gone are the days when late night was a dog-eat-dog world, populated by hosts who rarely missed an opportunity to bash one another—subtly or blatantly. Now, it seems hosts are more convinced than ever that this town is, indeed, big enough for everyone.